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Milan: Lebenswelt – exhibition

April 22, 2021 - May 1, 2021

LEBENSWELT

Artists: Oliviero Biagetti, Martyna Czech, Ewa Kubiak, Zuza Piekoszewska

Curated by: Dobrosława Nowak

By appointment only

‘Is something wrong?’, ‘Is something right?’—the artist Ewa Kubiak dialogues with herself performing as two differently-dressed figures appearing on the two opposite sides of the film frame in her super 8mm video ‘Three days without bad thoughts’. At the exhibition ‘Lebenswelt’ in the spacious Milanese Bovisamare, we will also see almost twenty oil on canvas/linen paintings by Oliviero Biagetti and Martyna Czech, and objects by Zuza Piekoszewska. 

Where does this experience bring us? Conceived for over 100-meters-square space of Bovisamare, the exhibition ‘Lebenswelt’ creates an opportunity to let the various stances of perception meet or clash and to put in the center the pure fact of their existence. The German term Lebenswelt is a philosophical category popularized by Edmund Husserl that refers to a crude, that is, free of theoretical accretions, way of seeing reality. In his book ‘The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy’ (1936), he noted that science that came after the pre-theoretical experience of reality emptied the scientific experience of the world of all sense. Lebenswelt is the world surrounding the individual perceived subjectively as the real world (where dreams, fantasies, and spiritual experiences are equally valid as part of the experience of living). Lebenswelt leaves no doubt about its reality to the person perceiving it.

As such, Lebenswelt is a capacious concept that contains the universe of interpretations. ‘Basically, we are dealing here only with the connection of the most immediate and at the same time the most distant, the most common, and the most metaphysical: with the connection of life and the world.’―writes Gérard Raulet. Yet, the term has also double translation from German, which welcomes further investigations. Lebens means ‘life’ and

Welt means ‘world’ so the term is translated both as the ‘world of life’ and the ‘world lived’. Wilhelm Dilthey attempted to describe this subtle difference. According to his findings, just as life transcends individual consciousness, so the ‘world of life’ brings to mind a humanized by meanings, made to be seen as a reasonable space of being, experiencing, and acting. And just as living is a continuous subjective experience of shifting the band of the present, the term ‘world lived’ suggests the centralization of experiencing reality in the subject.

The layers of both phenomena (life and world) never stop multiplying. Physical or virtual reality, digital or corporal experience, mental or sensual process? Even more in the face of the instability of the solid ground, so typical for contemporaneity, we polish our skills of swimming, flying, and dreaming. Lebenswelt is flexible enough to enable us to survive without fear. Just as a poet René Char describes his experience with the art of writing ‘Hell in our heads… Spring at our fingertips.’, so do contemporary artists translate their personal narrative into outer visual experiences with the utmost beauty of expression.

Text: Dobrosława Nowak


The exhibition will be visitable by appointment only. Please write to [email protected], or call 3332749791 to arrange a meeting.

The event is organized with the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Milan and the Polish Institute in Rome.

Details

Start:
April 22, 2021
End:
May 1, 2021
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Venue

Bovisamare
via Mercantini
Milan,
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